Douala, Cameroon
Douala, Cameroon
Map of Cameroon showing the location of Douala.
Coordinates: 4°3′N, 9°41′E
Province
Population (1992)
- City	1,200,000
- Urban	1,200,000
	estimated
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+1)

Location of Douala in Cameroon

Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Province. Home to Cameroon's largest port and its major international airport, Douala Airport, it is the commercial capital of the country. Consequently, it handles most of the country's major exports, such as oil, cocoa and coffee, as well as trade to or from Chad. It is also home to the Eko Market, the country's largest market. Douala is the largest city in Cameroon, and capital of the Littoral Province. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (987x1353, 211 KB) Joseph-Francis Sumegné, La nouvelle Liberté, 1996. ... Image File history File links CM-Douala. ... Crowded Shibuya, Tokyo shopping district An urban area is an area with an increased density of human-created structures in comparison to the areas surrounding it. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries not observing summer time Central European Time (CET) is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Central European Time West Africa Time British Summer Time* Irish Summer Time* Western European Summer Time* Category: ... Though DST is common in Europe and North America, most of the worlds people do not use it. ... Time zones of Europe: Pale colours indicate countries without daylight saving Central European Summer Time (CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Central European Time West Africa Time British Summer Time* Irish Summer Time* Western European Summer Time* Category: ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The Littoral Province is a province of Cameroon. ... Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 The Port of Wellington at night. ... Douala International Airport is an airport located 6 miles (10km) outside the city of Douala in Cameroon. ... Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Lubbock, Texas Ignacy Łukasiewicz - inventor of the refining of kerosene from crude oil. ... Cocoa beans in a cacao pod Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. ... A cup of coffee Workers sorting and pulping coffee beans in Guatemala Coffee is a widely consumed beverage prepared from the roasted seeds — commonly referred to as beans — of the coffee plant. ...

Overview

The city is built on the banks of the Wouri River, the two sides linked by Bonaberi Bridge. Its population in 1991 was recorded as around 1.6 million and is now likely to have exceeded 2 million. The climate is hot and humid. The estuary of the Wouri River The Wouri (also Vouri or Vuri) is a river in Cameroon. ...

The first Europeans to visit the area were the Portuguese in about 1472. By 1650, it had become the site of a town formed by immigrants from the interior who spoke the Douala language and during the eighteenth century it was center of the transatlantic slave trade. Before coming under German rule in 1884, the town was also known as Cameroons Town; thereafter it became Kamarunstadt ("Camaroon City"), the capital of German Kamerun. It was renamed Douala in 1907 and became part of the French Cameroons in 1919. From 1940 to 1946, it was the capital of Cameroon. Duala (also known by the French spelling Douala) is the language spoken around the Duala. ... The Atlantic slave trade, started by the Portuguese[1], but soon dominated by the English, was the sale and exploitation of African slaves by Europeans that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean from the 15th century to the 19th century. ... The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary republic of central Africa. ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Akwa is Douala's nightlife center and Bonanjo its center of commerce and administration. Along the city's main thoroughfare lie some of Cameroon's best restaurants, coffee houses and French-style patisseries; along the waterfront, many bars and bistros may be found, commanding views of the Gulf of Guinea and nearby mangrove swamps. Many of these are frequented by the city's large expatriate population, mainly French or Lebanese, most of whom work in the petroleum industry. A patisserie is a French bakery and its products that specializes in pastries and sweets. ... The Gulf of Guinea is the part of the Atlantic southwest of Africa. ... Above and below water view at the edge of the mangal. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The oil industry is a type of industry which brings petroleum to a financial market. ...

Douala is Africa's most expensive city, in terms of cost of living. [1]

Climate

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Transport

It is linked by rail to Yaoundé, Ngaoundéré, Kumba and Nkongsamba. Railroad or railway tracks are used on railways, which, together with railroad switches (points), guide trains without the need for steering. ... View of Yaoundé Yaoundé, «yah oon DAY», estimated population 1,430,000 (2004), is the capital city of Cameroon and second largest city in the country after Douala. ... Downtown Ngaoundéré Ngaoundéré or NGaoundéré is the capital of the Adamawa Province of Cameroon. ... Kumba is a city in western Cameroon. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

Maps

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External links

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Coordinates: 4°03′N, 9°42′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...